I have a resource that accepts array of numbers. Each number is proceed interdependently, and computation fails are expected. How should I communicate to API client "some of your numbers couldn't be ...

If some resource on a RESTful api is to be protected, we can do it by using OAuth for example, and then if the there's no token on the headers of the request (i.e. no identity) we return a 401 status ...

First of all, the goal of this exercise is to create a SOA with Django.
I am trying to understand what the implications would be if I decided to separate and insulate models into apps, provide a REST ...

As I currently understand HATEOAS is basically all about sending together with each response links with information about what to do next. One simple example is easily found on the internet: a banking ...

When designing RESTful APIs, one of the rules is: "URI designates exactly one resource" , but in the real world we also like good performance and one thing to kill performance is the N+1 problem.
So ...

I've been trying to understand how RESTful web services work and I've come up with a series of doubts and questions for which I have been unable to find an answer. First of all and to make sure I am ...

I'm starting to study about web api's and REST and I'm having a hard time to understand what is really a resource. Basically the book I'm reading says that a resource is a conceptual mapping to one or ...

We are using a third party REST API and we are building one of the pages on our ASP.NET site around the data it delivers. We get results in JSON, and interact with it mostly using .NET MongoDB Driver.
...

Hi Guys,
I have a decision to make to solve a problem, I’m describing the problem below.
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I have an ASP.NET MVC 4 webApp which uses Rest Api for almost all the tasks, from Login ...

I would like to build a RESTful API where I need to get data from a RavenHQ-cloud-database. First of all, is this possible?
The idea is to have multiple applications (xamarin-app, mvc-app, etc.) and ...

I have a model for an app that is fairly large, all of which needs to be on a users' device at the same time. For example, a spreadsheet. If a user makes a change to the model on one device, I want ...

A mobile back-end I am building should receive a larger amount of data (some sensor recordings) from an Android phone. The phone does not have much use of it so it was most efficient to store the data ...

The system I'm working on has a core web application where the bulk of the work is done. However, it relies on another server to handle transactional finance data. It connects to the server using a ...

Currently, I have a single Node server that provides both (a) stateless API routes returning JSON, and (b) session-based web routes. My API routes and web routes have started sharing a lot of code, ...

I'm quite new to the field. So I need to clarify what would be the best method to follow in the following situation.
I'm developing a restful API using php and use json to represent resources. While ...

For our REST service I want to send back a unique request ID with every response; useful for debugging internal projects but also for offering support to any third parties who might use the service in ...

My team is developing a multi-tier API with scalability and modularity in mind. The public access point of the API is fully REST. However, we are splitting the data access layer as another tier in our ...